Month: July 2008

Although I take an active interest in personal finance, I’m far from what I’d call an expert on all money matters, so I thought I’d start to enlist the help of some more knowledgeable people in order to answer some questions I have.

In this first post in our new “ask the expert” series, I spoke to Lyndsey from Credit-Card-Comparison-Online.co.uk and asked her a few questions about the credit card industry.

A report by the Yorkshire Building Society suggests that the average person’s savings would last them 52 if they lost their job. Monthly outgoings average £1,445 but on average we have £2,474 in accessible savings.

Google has recently added several pre-made templates to Google Documents, its suite of online office tools. Amongst these templates there are some very useful spreadsheets which will help you with personal finance issues – this article features 8 of the best.